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| Authored by: foulis on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 01:14 PM EDT |
<b>From:</b> Geoff Harris<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mike Beckerman; Linda Averett; Chadd Knowlton<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE WMP UI</p>
This is a disaster. This is not how this followup should be going. Linda and I
talked about this is[sic] our 1-1 today. I'll follow up with a meeting with Dan
and Chadd to debrief on the meeting (which I said I would do anyway after
yesterday's feature review). The plan would then be to go to Mike, Harish with
some synthesized plan for how to attack Bill's concerns. Mike, if you want to
circumvent that and get involved in tomorrow's meeting then we should bring in
Dennis and Harish as well. Which way do you want to go.</p>
----Original Message----<br>
<b>From:</b> Mike Beckerman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Linda Averett; Geoff Harris; Chadd Knowlton<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE WMP UI</p>
fyi</p>
----Original Message----<br>
<b>From: Chris Jones</b><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 31, 2000 1:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Will Poole; Bill Gates<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Craig Mundie; Eric Rudder; Tandy Trower; Jim Allchin;
Mike Beckerman<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE WMP UI</p>
note that we are also doing some work in ie6 to incorporate media playback into
the browser frame. ramezn is working on this with lindaa.</p>
-- c</p>
----Original Message----<br>
<b>From:</b> Will Poole<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 31, 2000 1:08 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bill Gates<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Craig Mundie; Eric Rudder; Tandy Trower; Jim Allchin;
Chris Jones; Mike Beckerman<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE WMP UI</p>
Our first step in this area has been with shell integration in Whistler. We've
done a ton of work with JoeB's team and people are quite pleased with the
results of the integration efforts fo far. We have done less with the browser,
other than the radio toolbar which is a very popular ie5 feature [when people
find it, which is not often b/c the IE team could not turn it on by default due
to perf considerations]. As you not[sic] we've also done some limited work in
Mars (including both integration of audio/video playback via our OCX as well as
providing programming through your favorite site windowsmedia.com). We think
there is lots of upside to further shell integration of video as well as audio.
As a company we must figure out how to better reconsile[sic] the different
consumer UIs that we ship (windows shell, IE, net, mars, media player
etc).</p>
Would you like to start with a review of current work in Whistler, plus Backcomb
plans? Then we could maybe do a broader review to include Mars etc.</p>
----Original Message----<br>
<b>From:</b> Bill Gates<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 31, 2000 12:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Will Poole<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Craig Mundie; Eric Rudder; Tandy Trower<br>
<b>Subject:</b> WMP UI</p>
The meeting on music yesterday reminded me that we need to do a lot better on
WMP UI and how it relates to the rest of Windows. Today it is a world of its own
- the fonts, the appearance, the file format, the concepts - no relationship to
the shell or the browser.</p>
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The MARs guys did move things in the right direction but I guess that is viewed
as heretical.</p>
We need to lead in the UI including the integration.</p>
Somehow we need to get better discussion going on this.</p>
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